problem with "yum install libXmu.so.6"

[nat101l at gmail.com (Nat Gross)]

On 4/26/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 13:49 -0400, Nat Gross wrote:
> > On 4/26/06, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Les Mikesell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If it does want the 32-bit version it shouldn't hurt anything
> > > > to install it with:
> > > > yum  install xorg-x11-libs.i386
> > > > I needed that for VMware server recently and posted here about
> > > > a conflict with fontconfig from the 64-bit version.  I think
> > > > that's a bug but someone responded with a workaround:
> > >
> > >
> > > > rpm -e --justdb --nodeps fontconfig
> > >
> > > which is very very wrong, and if you really care about this, dont do it.
> > >  find the solution to the problem, rather than just using a hammer to
> > > break your system even more.
> > Now, that I did do that, how do I reverse it?
>
> Karanbir and I are solving this issue right now ... we should have a fix
> later that will work for CentOS users (I hope).
>
> Just for the record, the upstream provider knows of the issue, which is
> that the file that becomes /usr/share/man/man5/fonts-conf.5.gz is not
> the same between the i386 build and the x86_64 build ... and they have
> this (private) bugzilla concerning that same problem with s390 and
> s390x:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97079
>
> Whatever they did do, they did not build their RPMS for i386 and x86_64
> from the published SRPM.
Possibly related issue: If I do a locate so.6 using the gui frontend
(search files) it reports most of the links as 'broken'. fwiw.
Thanks for the coming fix.
nat